Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist post in CleftNet.East, the Eastern Region Cleft Lip and Palate Service, held with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post cares for children, young people and families with a cleft, beginning antenatally for some and continuing into adulthood, across the East of England. Work spans family homes, wards, neonatal units and clinics, with lone working over a large area and training given to those new to cleft care. Visa sponsorship is not available.
What the job involves
- Deliver specialist nursing care to children, young people and families affected by cleft across the East of England
- Provide care in family homes, postnatal wards, neonatal units, children's wards and outpatient clinics
- Manage a complex caseload across a large geographical area
- Work with cleft, maternity and children's services, and with regional and community colleagues
- Work as a lone worker, making independent clinical decisions and managing health, safety and risk
- Provide child-centred, holistic, family-focused care within a multidisciplinary team
- Take part in audit, research and quality improvement locally and nationally
- Network with cleft professionals nationally
- Improve patient experience and patient-reported outcomes
What’s required
Qualifications
- RSCN/RN Child
- First degree or equivalent in nursing or a health-related subject
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Registration & licences
- Current NMC registration
Experience
- Working with acutely and chronically ill children and young people
- Evidence of working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team
- Commitment to teaching colleagues and students and to mentorship
- Community and safeguarding experience
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent written and oral communication, with diplomacy and negotiation skills
- Organisational and planning ability to prioritise and delegate, and computer literacy
- Ability to manage staff performance, change and conflict
- Understanding of the Children Act, National Service Framework, Every Child Matters, Working Together to Safeguard Children and the NHS Plan
Checks & eligibility
- Car driver with a clean full UK driving licence
- Right to work for at least six months from the proposed start date
Other
- Behaves in line with Trust values of safe, kind and excellent, collaborates widely, works flexibly and is committed to high clinical care standards
Nice to have
- Experience caring for children and families affected by cleft
- Experience in infant feeding, airway and respiratory assessment, post-operative nursing, health visiting or community nursing
- Post-graduate diploma, degree or Masters
- SCPHN qualification
- NICU, PICU, ENT or respiratory experience
- Experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Experience of audit and research
- Autonomous Practitioner status
What’s offered
- On-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries
- Reduced-cost Stagecoach bus travel to site, and free Park and Ride and train station routes
- Subsidised on-site parking for eligible staff
- Reduced-cost hot food on campus and free tea and coffee in the staff break space
- Flexible working, including part-time, job-share, term-time and flexible start and finish times
- Individually tailored cleft training and ongoing clinical supervision
- Preceptorship and mentoring programmes, and career development opportunities
- Research experience and opportunities
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
